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uesTec's TennisProView To Close Out
1999 Tennis Season in Europe

Technology Scheduled for EuroCard Open, Sparkassen Cup and return appearance at ATP Tour World Championship


Deer Park, N.Y. Thursday, October 7, 1999 - Long Island-based QuesTec Imaging, Inc. (NASD-BB: QSTI) announces the use of the company's TennisProView(TM) virtual replay system for two upcoming ATP Tour events and one WTA Tour event. QuesTec and Live Motion Company (LMC) of Wiesbaden, Germany will produce TennisProView for German state-owned ZDF ( www.zdf.de ) and ARD ( www.ard.de ) television networks. These events will bring QuesTec's total coverage of professional tennis for the 1999 season to 12 tournaments, which have included 9 ATP, 2 WTA and 1 Grand Slam event.

TennisProView will be featured during ATP's Eurocard-Open (
www.eurocard-open.de ) tournament in Stuttgart, Germany, October 25 - 31, and will be aired by both ZDF and ARD. TennisProView will also be featured during ZDF's and ARD's coverage of the WTA's Sparkassen Cup International Grand Prix tournament in Leipzig, Germany, November 1 - 7. QuesTec will close out the 1999 season with a return to the ATP World Championship in Hannover, Germany for ZDF television November 22 - 28. TennisProView is a real-time video- and computer-based tracking and scoring system that creates virtual replays for television and a behind-the-scenes analysis tool for commentators. TennisProView will be available for all pre-match, match and post-match coverage of center court action. Tennis fans will be treated to a unique perspective of different types of serves, match serve patterns, Aces and close line calls.

These tournaments will be QuesTec's tenth, eleventh and twelve televised productions featuring TennisProView during the 1999 season, of which six were produced in Europe. QuesTec debuted TennisProView at the 1998 ATP World Championship, Hannover, Germany. Since its debut, TennisProView has been featured during the Sybase Open, Kroger/St. Jude, Franklin Templeton, Lipton Championship, Family Circle Cup, French Open, Gerry Weber Open, Mercedes Cup Stuttgart and the Hamlet Cup.

Ares Donzelli, tennis announcer for ZDF German Television, said: "TennisProView is truly revolutionary for tennis broadcasting. Its features allow us to present our audience with fast representations of key events during the match. TennisProView's ability to instantly display players' serves and strategies allows us to better inform our viewers."

QuesTec's TennisProView technology is the only interactive real-time, virtual replay system available for live televised tennis. TennisProView instantly captures, quantifies, and displays the speed, path and location of serves. QuesTec's TennisProView technology is currently being marketed to television networks and sponsors as an analysis tool for commentators and an instant virtual replay system for televised tennis.

"We are extremely pleased with our recent expansion into Europe", stated Edward Plumacher, founder of QuesTec. "Our presence this year in France and Germany has had significant impact on our European branding of QuesTec. We are gearing up for a strong and expanded role in European television and Internet technology enablement. QuesTec is aggressively pursuing opportunities in the U.K., and we have instituted development plans for products tailored to the specific demands of European sports fans. The European arena is proving to be a very lucrative market with huge potential for QuesTec technology and our eSports(TM) enabled products."

QuesTec provides real-time motion capture, replay and analysis products for sports entertainment, display media, business and industry. The company develops real-time virtual replays and eSports(TM) technology for mainstream professional sports and entertainment. QuesTec's technology enablement offers unique content and visualization for the convergence of today's emerging digital media.

For more information on QuesTec Imaging, Inc. contact the company at (516) 243-1880 or visit
http://www.questec.com



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This news release was prepared by management and they accept responsibility for its contents and forward looking statements. Michael Russo - President



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